Experiences and challenges for EQA providers in assessing the commutability of control materials in accuracy-based EQA programs. [PDF]
Front Med (Lausanne)Vierbaum L +5 more
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Analytical performance specifications for EQA schemes – need for harmonisation [PDF]
Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), 2015 AbstractExternal Quality Assurance (EQA) is a vital tool in laboratory medicine to assess individual laboratory analytical performance and also the differences between the results from different laboratories. This information is also useful for professional bodies and manufacturers as part of post-market surveillance.
Graham Jones
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Interpretation of EQA results and EQA-based trouble shooting [PDF]
Biochemia Medica, 2017 Important objectives of External Quality Assessment (EQA) is to detect analytical errors and make corrective actions. The aim of this paper is to describe knowledge required to interpret EQA results and present a structured approach on how to handle ...
G. B. Kristensen, P. Meijer
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Demystifying EQA statistics and reports [PDF]
Biochemia Medica, 2017 Reports act as an important feedback tool in External Quality Assessment (EQA). Their main role is to score laboratories for their performance in an EQA round. The most common scores that apply to quantitative data are Q- and Z-scores. To calculate these
W. Coucke, M. R. Soumali
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Asociación entre burnout y calidad asistencial en atención primaria [PDF]
Atención PrimariaResumen: Objetivos: Valorar la influencia del burnout en el médico de familia sobre su puntuación en el índice EQA. Diseño: Estudio observacional. Sitio: Estudio realizado en los centros de atención primaria del Consorcio Sanitario de Terrassa, en el ...
Kilian Griñan Ferre +2 more
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The role of EQA in harmonization in laboratory medicine – a global effort [PDF]
Biochemia Medica, 2017 There are many activities currently being undertaken in the field of laboratory medicine under the broad heading of “harmonization”. These include traceability of results to international reference standards, processes to align results from assays where ...
Graham R D Jones
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International Journal of Medical MicrobiologyIn the beginning of 2020, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic led to a crisis in which diagnostic methods for the genome detection of SARS-CoV-2 were urgently needed. Based on the very early publication of the basic principles for a diagnostic test for
Martin Kammel +32 more
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Interlaboratory consistency of SDC2 promoter methylation detection in colorectal cancer using the post-optimized materials [PDF]
iScienceSummary: Fecal DNA-based Syndecan 2 (SDC2) methylation detection is a promising non-invasive strategy for early colorectal cancer (CRC) screening. In China, commercial assays for SDC2 methylation detection vary in sensitivity and specificity, yet there ...
Lijing Zhang +5 more
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New Calibration of HbA1c Measurement and the Effect on EQAS [PDF]
American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 2012 Patricia Kaiser, H. Reinauer
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Impacto del cálculo del valor seis sigma utilizando la ecuación de Schmidt-Launsbyn vs. la ecuación de Westgard en el programa español EQA tipo I. [PDF]
Adv Lab MedMarqués-García F +12 more
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